Cityscape art

thumb|right|Painting of the Dam Square in Amsterdam, by [[Gerrit Adriaensz Berckheyde, ]] thumb|right|Photograph of Dresden, Germany, in the 1890s In the visual arts, a cityscape (urban landscape) is an artistic representation, such as a painting, drawing, print or photograph, of the physical aspects of a city or urban area. It is the urban equivalent of a landscape. Townscape is roughly synonymous with cityscape, though it implies the same difference in urban size and density (and even modernity) implicit in the difference between the words city and town. In urban design the terms refer to th